The Rice Tape EP Is Out Now.

When: Long-time friends who formed in 2014. They brought out a five-track cassette titled The Rice Tapein May, spearheaded by the furious ‘Boil D Rice’ as your starter, serving up ‘Paul Is Sure’ as a meaty main, and rounding things off with the krautrocky sweetness of ‘Keshi Heads’ in homage to Liverpool legend Craig Charles.

Why: Absolutely deafening live shows. Their recent set supporting Protomartyr in Liverpool apparently featured ‘technical problems’, but they weren’t problems as far as I was concerned. Wonderful contrast of intricacy and sheer volume, interwoven with enough feedback to shatter every window of the Liver Building.

You can catch them on August 5 at the Bagelry in Liverpool, alongside fellow Scouse bands Bad Meds, Sheer Attack and Obey Lizard Rule.

Overblown is all about subterranean music. We aim to champion bands and record labels that we are passionate about and are overlooked and undervalued by the mainstream media machine, while still paying homage to the iconic bands and labels who laid and developed the groundwork for today’s emerging talent. Whether it is post punk, shoegaze, sludge metal, noise rock, or anything in between, we want to bring these alternative music genres to the fore.